St. Joseph Habitat for Humanity received a semi-truck load of Owens Corning fiberglass insulation Friday morning.

The donation worth $10,000 comes from Owens Corning who is one of the end-users for Ripple Glass recycled glass.

“This generous donation will save us approximately $1,500 per new home built by St. Joseph Habitat and will allow us to help more families with weatherization needs as we continue to expand our Neighborhood Revitalization,” said Cate Manley, St. Joseph Habitat for Humanity Executive Director.

According to a news release, Ripple Glass, founded in 2009, is the brainchild of those at Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City. Before Ripple Glass, area citizens threw away 150 million pounds of glass, including some 10 million empty Boulevard bottles. With the support of local companies and community organizations, Boulevard came up with a solution to the problem – Ripple Glass.

Ripple Glass cleans and processes glass received to enable remanufacturing into new products. Ripple sends brown glass to a bottling plant in Oklahoma, to be made into beer bottles. All other colors of glass are made into finely ground cullet and sent to Owens Corning in Kansas City, Kansas, to be manufactured into fiberglass insulation.

All colors of glass bottles and jars can be recycled and labels can remain on the glass items. Glass can be recycled at St. Joseph City Recycling Center at 3405 South Belt Highway.